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Dave L
The radical italian Kitegen wind power system appears to have been funded for 15 million euro.
Kitegen has been covered before at Nextbigfuture A 100 MW Kitegen power plant is estimated to deliver a cost of energy produced lower than 0.03 Euro per kWh.
Note: this article is using a translation of a webpage that was in Italian.
From translation: To june the 2006 kitegen it has received a financing of 15 million euro.
The wind at high altitude (500-600 meters height) is nearly always present and blows 7000 hours during the year while that at ground level wind is present only for approximately 1700-1800 hours per year (hours that represent the Kwh relationship produced in a year regarding the power of the wind turbine generator), a year have 8760 hours.
A Kitegen system able to deliver 1 GigaWatt is projected to cost 80 million euro.
Using the first 4 million euro a 1 megawatt prototype kitegen will be built. The remaining 11 million euro of the public contribution will be used for a 20 Megawatt version. It will be constructed on the old nuclear reactor site at Trino (VC). The area is ideal because already it is protected by a ³no fly zone², will be dealt, in this case, of Aeolic of high quota. In any case, it is believed that the technology of the generators to vertical axis, when mature, will supplant that to horizontal axis, as of the rest it is already, partially, happening.
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